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D. J. STEIN. CLOTH SPQNGING AND RBPINISHING APPARATUS. No. 567,111.

Patented Sept. 1, 1896. E'J.

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ATYORNEYSv NITED STATES PATENT Trice.

' DAVID J. STEIN, OF NEIV YORK, N. Y.

CLOTH SPONGING AND REFINISHING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 567,111, dated September 1, 1896. Application filed June 11,1896. Serial No. 595,206. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DAVID J. STEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at'New York, in the county and State of New York, have iny vented new and useful Improvements in Oloth Sponging and Refinishing Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide an apparatus which, while readily sponging or dampening cloth, will also completely'or efliciently dry or refinish the same after sponging; and the invention resides in the novel features of construction set forth in the following specilication and claims and illustrated in the annexed drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a sectional side elevation of the apparatus. Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1.

The apparatus comprises a frame or support 1 with rollers 2 and 3. A steam-chest or moistening-boX 4 receives steam or moisture from the pipe or supply 5, connecting with coil or sprayer 6. The cover 7 of the moistener 4is of porous material, such as felt, suitably stiffened and supported in curved or arched form on the cross-pieces 8. Said cover 7 has transverse ribs 9 suitably placed at intervals on its outside face. The cloth 10,

I taken from a suitable pile or supply, is led about rollers 2 3 and over the moistener 4 to be sponged. The ribs 9 allow the cloth to glide easily over cover 7 without contacting with the latter, and the steam or moisture escaping through the cover 7 will sponge such cloth. From moistener or sponger 4 the cloth passes about roller 11, covered with felt or absorbent 12, moisture in the cloth, and thence about roller 13, having the oppositely-wound screw ribs or threads 14, which serve to smooth or unwrinkle the cloth. Passing thence about the roller 16, having felt or absorbent covering 17, the cloth passes or slips over a finishing surface or drum 1S. This surface is Vfixed and is supplied with heat or steam from pipe 5 by connection 19. A convenient or eflicient way of utilizing the steam is to pass the same through conduit 19 into drum 1S to heat the latter, and thence through conduit 20, connecting with sprayer G, which latter can also receive steam direct from pipe 5.

From the finishing-surface 1S the cloth passes about finishing-roller 21, having suitwhich aids the distribution of able covering or felt 22, and thence about the inishing-roller 23. Between the finishingrollers 21 and 23 the cloth is suitably pressed.

The roller 23 is journaled in a swinging bear-V ing 24, jointed or swinging at 25 from frame 1, v

so that the finishing-roller 23 always bears or presses against nishing-roller 21.

The driving-pulley 26 receives motion in suitable way, as by a belt, (not shown,) and has a pulley or wheel 27, engaged by a belt or chain or flexible connection 23. This connection extends about pulley or guide 29, suitably mounted on frame 1, and runs thence about under a pulley 30, secured to roller 23, and about over a pulley 31, secured to roller 21, and back to pulley 27. This belt thus not only rotates the rollers 21 and 23 in opposite directions, but also draws the swinging roller 23 toward the roller 21 for effecting a refinishing pressure on the cloth.

The pulley. 30 is at one side or end of the roller 23, and a spring 32, engaging the swinging bearing 24 at the opposite side, will aid belt 2S in pressing roller 23 to roller 21. The cloth being pressed between rollers 21 and 23 not only is finished by such pressure, but is also fed along by the rotation of such rollers. The roller 23 is heated by steam from pipe 5, led to such roller by a union-joint 33 and conduit 34 or by a iieXible connection. As the motion or swing of roller 23 is slight, a flexible conduit is in general not required. In place of a rollerl13 a iiXed surface with suitably-inclined threads or ridges 14, over which the cloth slips, can be employed.

Vhat I claim as new, and desire lto secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a cloth sponging and reiinishing apparatus the combination with a steam-chesthaving an open top', yof a and supporting-ribs arranged on the upper side of said covering for holding the cloth out of contact with the covering while traveling over the latter, substantially as described.

2. A cloth sponging and refinishing apparatus provided with a steam chest or moistener and with refinishing-rollers, a swinging bearing lfor one of the refinishing-rollers, a driving wheel or pulley, and a driving belt or connection extended from the driving-pulley to the swinging roller and thence to the felt covering therefor,

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pulley for holding the sWin ging roller toward the contiguous roller substantially as described.

3. A cloth sponging and refinishing apparatus provided with a steam chest or moisten er and with refinishing-rollers, aswinging bearing for one of the refinishing-rollers, a driving Wheel or pulley, and a driving belt or connection extended from the driving-pulley to the swinging roller and thence to the contiguous roller and back to the driving-pulley for holding the swinging roller toward the contiguous roller, said driving connection being located at one side of the swinging bearing, and a spring applied to the other side of the swinging bearing for aiding the driving connection in holding the swinging roller in pressing or refinishing contact su bstantially as described.

4. A cloth sponging and refinishing apparatus provided With a steam chest or moistener and with a stationary cylindrical heated drum or surface over which the cloth is made to slip, and with refinishing-rollers, a swinging bearing for one of the refinishing-rollers, a driving Wheel or pulley,

Witnesses.

DAVID J. STEIN. I'Vitnesses:

WM. C. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER. 

